Monthly Archive for May, 2012

Humans as an evolutionary force

Due to the industrialization of agriculture, medicine, and landscape, humans have become the world’s greatest evolutionary force especially towards disease organisms, agricultural pests, commensals, and species hunted commercially. For example, nearly all Gram-positive infections were sensitive to penicillin in the 1940s but currently the majority of Gram-positive bacteria are penicillin-resistant and up to 50% are [...]

Pop EP

Population evolutionary psychology provides broad claims about human nature and culture for popular consumption. Just as natural selection has caused morphological adaptations, Pop EP has allowed for universal human nature adaptations such as face recognition, parental care, and mate attraction and retention. However, there are many faults within population EP. The largest fallacy is a [...]